2 Maccabees 15:2

2 Nevertheless the Jews who were compelled to go with him said, O destroy not so cruelly and barbarously, but give honor to that day which He, that seeth all things, hath honored with holiness above all other days.

2 Maccabees 15:2 In-Context

1 But Nicanor, hearing that Judas and his company were in the strong places about Samaria, resolved without any danger to set upon them on the Sabbath day.

2 Nevertheless the Jews who were compelled to go with him said, O destroy not so cruelly and barbarously, but give honor to that day which He, that seeth all things, hath honored with holiness above all other days.

3 Then the most ungracious wretch demanded if there were a mighty one in heaven who had commanded the Sabbath day to be kept.

4 And when they said, There is in heaven a living Lord, and mighty, who commanded the seventh day to be kept,

5 then said the other, And I also am mighty upon earth, and I command to take arms and to do the king's business. Yet he prevailed not in having his wicked will done.